Sarbanes-Oxley Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Sarbanes-Oxley skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 8 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.59% 1.54% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.12% 9.68% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £604 £517 -
25th Percentile £609 £524 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £543 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.51% +20.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £554 -
90th Percentile - £558 -
East of England median daily rate £650 £560 £450
% change year-on-year +16.07% +24.44% -18.18%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedfordshire

Sarbanes-Oxley falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 66 31 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 29.60% 15.90% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 24
10th Percentile £86 £102 £433
25th Percentile £500 £213 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £600
90th Percentile - £603 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £490
% change year-on-year +17.65% -13.27% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 2
10th Percentile £48.48 £36.19 £52.75
25th Percentile £80.00 £43.44 £53.13
Median hourly rate £88.00 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.04% +4.55% -20.00%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £56.88
90th Percentile £92.35 £73.75 £57.25
East of England median hourly rate £31.49 £25.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year +25.96% -43.82% +165.67%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in Bedfordshire

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Sarbanes-Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Luton -1 8 £638 +17.51% 1
Sarbanes-Oxley
East of England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 7 (87.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (25.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
1 5 (62.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) JMeter
1 3 (37.50%) LoadRunner
1 3 (37.50%) NeoLoad
General
1 8 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Life Science
2 3 (37.50%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) ERP
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Biotechnology
2 5 (62.50%) Business Analysis
2 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Data Management
2 5 (62.50%) Data Science
2 5 (62.50%) Use Case
2 5 (62.50%) User Experience
3 4 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (50.00%) Project Management
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Matrix Management
4 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Service Management
4 3 (37.50%) Test Management
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) GxP
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Ariba